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Originally posted by onetime2
Just thought I'd throw out the fact that we saw another 248,000 jobs added in May. That brings the total gained since January to 1,030,000. That's a net gain of 494,000 jobs since January of 2000.
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Yup. Unemployment stayed at 5.6% Total employment was 138.8 million in May. 138.8 million - .5 million = 138.3 million employed in January 2000. .5 million/138.3 million = 0.3% growth over 4 years. Booyah!
But to be fair, like apeman said, the President can't do much.